1941 Underwood typewriter

A vintage large format Underwood gets a new ribbon and quick tuneup from Ron who has been in this line of work for 43 years. He shares some great tips to get the old typewriter working perfect. This machine has a extra wide platten to handle large format paper and card stock. Not sure what it was used for. I got this at an estate sale.

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Howto & Style

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• underwood
• typewriter
• vintage
• office
• equipment
• typing
• machine
• Johnny
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• radio
• antique

[greeterboy]

I'd love to know the name of that lubricant he's using. It looks like it says "Blow Off", but that would be just compressed air. However, it looks like liquid is shooting out of the thing.

[southjk]

@greeterboy It's called rubber rejuvenator by "blow off" it's actually like zylene with compressed air. Its a solvent that disolves old grease residue. It's really good to free up sticky keys and for cleaning ink residue from the platten.

[keikothemeowmeow]

Pretty sweet!

I just bought myself an Olympia SM 9 off of someone from craigslist for 15 dollars.

I find it strange how people essentially hand off antiques to people O_O The same typewriter was going for about 150 on ebay.

[southjk]

thanks for commenting...

I also picked up a Royal Quiet Writer at an estate sale for 5 bucks...works perfect

[woxiemuffin]

Ron, please contact me at woxiemuffin@me.com regarding this typewriter of you would.

Thanks.

[colbolt54]

What kind of liquid was in that spray

[matkovicha]

I would be scared to death to sell a typewriter on ebay, I fear that whoever buys it will cut the keys off of it, and use them as jewelry.

[Dreambro1]

@TheJunkCollecter Selling? Or Sold? you cant go by the listing price, go to advance and select completed auctions! the items with green prices will tell you what actually sold! asking price and selling price can be Worlds apart! and ebay can be like stocks and bonds, you gotta know when to pick em up and when to drop em! this week an item can be a 300 dollar item, next week its a ten dollar item. Usually it happens that many see the high selling price and EVERYONE lists,flooding the market!

[Dreambro1]

@keikothemeowmeow Ebay can be Hit or miss too. I saw a typewriter go for over 200 bucks on ebay, then i listed the exact same item in the exact same condition, and it only brought 36.00! ;-(

[TheJunkCollecter]

Talking about a steal. I went to goodwill and got a royal hh typewriter. Turns out, some guy on ebay is selling the same typewriter for $140

[hckrwolf]

i love how it just cuts to him playing the piano hahaha. he seems like a fun guy.

[navelgazerboreas]

Hello, Was hoping you could help me-my Underwood has problems when I hit the capital key,it prints way too high on the line.How can I fix this?

Cheers,

Martin